Nail Art

I try to mine & my daughter's nails on a regular basis.  Typically every 2 weeks or so.
I made the mistake of doing mine more often than that and seriously messed up my toe nails.  I don't want to do that to hers so I try to be careful.

Anyways, I was introduced to this wonderful product call Konad. 

I had watched a couple of videos on YouTube, and looked at some blogs at all the possibilities but couldn't quite bring myself to order any.
Enter the local flea market.
I was wandering around when I came upon this lady who had kits, plates, polishes, the whole shebang.  Well it must have been fate.  I bought a french manicure kit from her, and no sooner than me walking through the door I had it opened and was trying it. 

The first few times were horrendous, to say the least.  Finally I got the hang of it.
I bought a couple more plates from a website, and another of the "special" polishes to go with them.  I was getting pretty bummed cause the lady hadn't been back at the flea market, and lets be honest, those plates and polishes are kindly pricey when you want quite a few of them.

I found myself parusing Amazon one day and came across some "fauxnad" plates.  Well, I had to buy them.  After that I discovered through playing around that you don't only have to use the "special" stamping polish.  It's really just a case of trial and error.

That brings us to today.  Very rarely to I, or my daughter, go without stamps on hands or feet, or both.

I got a free Hello Kitty nail plate from an awesome website.  Bornprettystore.com.  Their prices are good, and from what I've used on the plate so far, the product is good.  The store is in China, so shipping took a little longer than others, but for a free plate I was willing to wait.  I can guarantee I will be using them again.  And no, they haven't paid me for my little review, I just figured I would pass the word along like someone had told me about it.

Back to my original purpose.

I painted mine & my daughters nails & toes.
She didn't want the Hello Kitty.  She opted for some Halloween-esque toes, and sparkly pink nails.

I used Orly Red Carpet, which is a pretty, sparkly red.  Not as in your face as some others.  Perfect for a little girl.  The stamp is from Bundle Monster BM13.  The black is Konad special polish.

The pink is Orly Purple Crush with Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter on top.


My nails took quite a bit more time.

I used Orly Basket Case for the pink, nails & dots.  The white nails are painted with Sinful Colors Snow Me White.  The white dots I did with Konad Special Polish in White.  The dot stamps are from Bundle Monster plate BM19 & the Hello Kitty plate is from Born Pretty plate M71.

I hope you like these.  Any questions or comments please leave them! 

I'll post more as I do them.

Update on Waggoner :  He's doing good, made it through the week & eating fairly well.  We're just taking it a day at a time!!